Sunny War

Shabazz Palaces

Cleo Sol

Jamila Woods

Brittany Howard

Kamasi Washington

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges

Durand Jones & The Indications

Saun & Starr

Mighty Sparrow

Leyla McCalla

COMPILATIONS

Earl King - "Big Chief" is a song composed by Earl King in the early 1960s. It became a hit in New Orleans for Professor Longhair in 1964, featuring a whistled first chorus in a rollicking blues piano style and subsequent lyrics written in pidgin (whistled and sung by King, uncredited). The tune became popular in New Orleans, frequently performed by local musicians such as Dr. John, and is now a staple of the repertory of most brass bands and musicians in the area. (Even though it was not a national hit, the single was available for years in the New Orleans area, especially during Mardi Gras.)

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Allen Toussaint

Cold Specks

Lianne La Havas

Lauryn Hill

J Dilla

Donuts 2006 Stones Throw

Q-Tip

Sly & The Family Stone

Ceu

Jorge Ben Jor

Beyonce

Massive Attack

Tricky

Born and raised in Bristol, he began his career as an early collaborator of Massive Attack before embarking on a solo career with his debut album, Maxinquaye, in 1995. The release won Tricky popular acclaim and marked the beginning of a lengthy collaborative partnership with vocalist Martina Topley-Bird. He released four more studio albums before the end of the decade, including Pre-Millennium Tension and the pseudonymous Nearly God, both in 1996. He has gone on to release eight studio albums since 2000, most recently Ununiform (2017).

Augustus Pablo

Ben Harper

Lido Pimienta

Devon Gilfillian

The War and Treaty

Orchestra Baobab

Curtis Harding

Saul Williams

As a writer, Williams has been published in The New York Times, Esquire, Bomb Magazine, and African Voices, as well as releasing four collections of poetry. As a poet and musician, Williams has toured and lectured across the world, appearing at many universities and colleges. In his interview in the book Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, Williams explained why he creates within so many genres: "It's not that I balance those arts out, all the different arts balance me out. So, that there is a certain type of emotion that is more easily accessible through music than poetry... some things are meant to be written, some are meant to be sung, some things are meant to be hummed, some things are made to be yelled, and so that's just how life works."

Son Little

Les Amazones d'Afrique

The Devonns

Rain Machine

Kyp Malone is a multi-instrumentalist and member of the bands TV on the Radio, Iran, Rain Machine, and Ice Balloons. MALONE DESCRIBES THE RAIN MACHINE SOUND AS "A NEARLY FULL SPECTRUM OF FREQUENCIES AUDIBLE TO THE HUMAN EAR - A REFLECTION OF A VARIETY OF EMOTIONS AND SITUATIONS REAL AND IMAGINED, SOME RHYTHM AND SOME RHYME."

Carolina Chocolate Drops

an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina. Their 2010 album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album

Hurray For The Riff Raff

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

Chicano Batman

Ibibio Sound Machine